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Would you consider buying a 4C if you saw what the production starts with? Just a couple of sheets of baggy material. But in the end… Most exciting moment is the finishing touch. When they fill up the tank and screw the licenseplate onto the car. MY license plate. OK, Ill keep dreaming… Check out … Continue reading →

Albeit a bit late, I’d like to get back to the Villa d’Este Concorso d’Eleganza, held from May 24th to 26th. By referendum at Villa Erba the public granted the Concorso d’Eleganza Design Award for Concept Cars & Prototypes to the Disco Volante 2013 by Touring Superleggera. In science fiction movies flying saucers (disco volante … Continue reading →

April 26th, 2013, the Style Icons exposition in the Louwman Museum was officially opened. Here’s a short video, published on SCARBtube, the YouTube channel of the largest and oldest (35 years) Alfa Romeo owners club (SCARB) in the Netherlands. One of the Alfa Romeos is the 1900 SSZ that recently was retrieved from a garage … Continue reading →

Top pieces from Alfa Romeo’s Museo Storico, the collection of Corrado Lopresto and other private collections will be exhibited on Style Icons (Dutch: Stijl Iconen) in the Louwman Museum, The Hague in the Netherlands. The exhibition starts April 27th and ends June 2nd and is organized in cooperation with the Dutch Alfa Romeo owners club … Continue reading →

A new series, Retrovisore (Italian for rear view mirror), looks back at events I have attended in the past. The first one is a slideshow from images I took from Alfa Romeos at the Mitomacchina exbhibition. From December 2nd, 2006 to May 1st, 2007 the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (MART) in Rovereto, Italy … Continue reading →

La Collezione Pininfarina is the works museum of maybe the worlds most important design house. You will not find an endless row of cars, but those present demand hours of scrupulous study; Modulo, Cambiano, Sergio and as for Alfa Romeo the stunning 2010 2uettottanta. If you are into automotive design the new page is certainly … Continue reading →

The Disco Volante by Carrozzeria Touring will debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, held from March 7th to 17th, in the Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland. The Disco Volante is based on a 8c Competizione platform. Watch the video by ClassicDriver.com.